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Easy Vegan Pesto (10 Mins)
Easy and Delicious Vegan Pesto. Use with pasta, salads, over pizza, over garlic bread, roasted veggies, wraps! Nut-free option. Vegan gluten-free soy-free Recipe
Prep Time
10 mins
Cook Time
10 mins
Total Time
20 mins
Servings: 4
Calories: 123 kcal
Course:
Side Dish
Cuisine:
Italian
Ingredients
- 1 cup packed fresh basil
- 1 cup spinach or baby kale, or loosely packed parsley, cilantro or more basil
- 2 tbsp sunflower seeds or hemp seeds
- 3 tbsp pine nuts or pecans or use almonds, cashews, walnuts, (hemp seeds or more sunflower seeds for nutfree)
- 2 cloves of garlic
- 1/4 tsp salt
- 1 tbsp nutritional yeast , optional, add a cheesy flavor, or use vegan parmesan of choice
- zest of half a lemon or use lemon juice to taste
- 1 tbsp extra virgin olive oil
- Water as needed
- black pepper , red pepper flakes or other flavor addition
Instructions
- Add basil, spinach, sunflower seeds, pecans, garlic, salt, nutritional yeast, lemon zest to a food processor. Process until a coarse mixture.
- Add olive oil and a tbsp or so water. and process again. Add more water if needed to make a homogeneous mixture.
- Taste and adjust flavor. Add more oil to preference, adjust salt, add more nutritional yeast for cheesier. Use with pasta, salads, over pizza, over garlic bread, in sandwiches with roasted veggies and other applications. Store refrigerated for upto 5 days. Freeze in ice cubes.
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Notes
- Nut-free: Use a combination of sunflower seeds, pumpkin seeds and hemp seeds instead of the nuts.
- Tip: if using large nuts of harder nuts, pulse just the nuts first to make into a coarse meal then add basil etc.
- Nutrition is for 1 serve of 4.
Nutrition Information
Calories
123kcal
(6%)
Carbohydrates
4g
(1%)
Protein
4g
(8%)
Fat
10g
(15%)
Saturated Fat
1g
(5%)
Sodium
155mg
(6%)
Potassium
186mg
(5%)
Fiber
1g
(4%)
Sugar
1g
(2%)
Vitamin A
1215IU
(24%)
Vitamin C
4.2mg
(5%)
Calcium
23mg
(2%)
Iron
1.2mg
(7%)
Nutrition Facts
Serving: 4Serving
Amount Per Serving
Calories 123
% Daily Value*
| Calories | 123kcal | 6% |
| Carbohydrates | 4g | 1% |
| Protein | 4g | 8% |
| Fat | 10g | 15% |
| Saturated Fat | 1g | 5% |
| Sodium | 155mg | 6% |
| Potassium | 186mg | 4% |
| Fiber | 1g | 4% |
| Sugar | 1g | 2% |
| Vitamin A | 1215IU | 24% |
| Vitamin C | 4.2mg | 5% |
| Calcium | 23mg | 2% |
| Iron | 1.2mg | 7% |
* Percent Daily Values are based on a 2,000 calorie diet.